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Are Dish Network receivers IR controllable?
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Topic: | Are Dish Network receivers IR controllable? This thread has 5 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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Post 1 made on Thursday December 26, 2002 at 22:12 |
dvd Founding Member |
Joined: Posts: | January 2002 69 |
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I have a customer with a Dish Network model 4000 receiver. He currently has a remote that is UHF. Does anyone know if this unit can be controlled by IR? I ordered a remote from Skyvision which was suppose to be IR but found out that the IR is only for the VCR, TV portion but the satellite receiver is still UHF not IR. I have also been told now that all Dish Network receivers are UHF with the possible exception of model 301. Can anyone confirm the above? If it is true that the receivers are all UHF - how can I controll it with a Marantz 5200 remote. Any help and or info would be appreciate.
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Post 2 made on Thursday December 26, 2002 at 23:39 |
QQQ Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | January 2002 4,806 |
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No, it is not true. All Dish receivers are IR controllable. In the past (probably over 5 years ago) they did have some receivers that were RF only.
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Post 3 made on Friday December 27, 2002 at 06:53 |
timz Lurking Member |
Joined: Posts: | December 2002 2 |
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I think the "4000" dish receivers are only UHF out of the box, not IR.
There used to be a "fix" by soldering some components to the circuit board - remember seeing it posted on a web site a long time ago.
The "4900" series do both UHF and IR (plus give the "all subscribed" feature for the guide and are much faster when pressing "info"). I finally gave in and replaced my 4000 with 4900 - very happy.
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Post 4 made on Friday December 27, 2002 at 14:28 |
QQQ Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | January 2002 4,806 |
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The 3000, 4000 and 5000 were all controllable by IR, EXCEPT as I said there was a point in time where some of their receivers were RF only.
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Post 5 made on Saturday December 28, 2002 at 11:31 |
Gannon Lurking Member |
Joined: Posts: | December 2002 7 |
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DVD,
Not to sound too much like the computer troubleshooters with their early investigatitive questions (have you plugged in your computer?!!), BUT have you tried simply learning the IR codes from the Dish remote?
The last few systems I automated with two different Dish tuners (don't remember model numbers) that were obviously UHF (marked on the remote, and they worked without line-of-sight), but both remotes spit out IR at the same time. I was able to teach both the Niles Intellicontrol and a Marantz 5200 from the UHF remote, and the tuner understood the commands without toggling anything in the setup menu. So it seems that their UHF remote speaks IR also, at least on two models.
I actually had the Intellicontrol customer order one of their new PVRs to get one that worked with IR...BEFORE I realized his existing tuner worked by both IR and RF--I NEVER would have tried it, because the owner's manual said nothing about IR. (He needed the PVR anyways...)
Let me know if it works.
Cheers, John
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John J. Gannon Gadfly and Rogue Philosopher |
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Post 6 made on Sunday December 29, 2002 at 01:28 |
My 501s work perfectly fine with IR.
I use RF for when I want to control it from another room.
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